<p>I know we have quite a bit of time before selecting courses. Still, I was wondering if we could get some opinions on who the best professors are at Brown. (There may be an old thread like this, but something more current would be most useful.) What course recommendations do you all have for next year’s entering freshman class? Whose classes should we most definitely enroll in and not graduate without having taken? </p>
<p>I look forward for everyone’s input!</p>
<p>I’ve heard Neuro 1, with John Stein, is a must. (And I’m looking forward to it!)</p>
<p>This should help too: [The</a> Daily Jolt - Last Call: Class Edition](<a href=“http://brown.thejolt.com/last_call:_class_edition.html]The”>http://brown.thejolt.com/last_call:_class_edition.html)</p>
<p>The Idea of Self (Pucci) is a good CAP class. Pucci in general is amazing.</p>
<p>Not sure if Berenfeld (Visiting prof in Archaeology) will be back next year, but if she is, she’s one of the best profs I’ve had here, and her classes are great for freshmen (accessible, not too difficult, engaging, get a really good handle on the material).</p>
<p>The Portuguese program is great. Even though the intro classes are mostly taught by TAs, the TAs are phenomenal and in general it’s a really well run language track.</p>
<p>in the applied mathematics department, i’d take anything that stuart geman teaches. that was the advice my concentration advisor gave me, and it was one of the best advices i’ve heard.</p>
<p>Ruth Adler Ben-Yehuda, William Simmons, James Morone, Amit Basu, Richard Stratt, Christopher Seto, Paul Williard, Kenneth Wong, Dan Bisaccio, Andy Van Dam, Martin West, Jan Tullis, Reid Cooper, Mark A. Johnson, Shelia Blumstein, Barrett Hazeltine, Thomas Banchoff, John Tyler, and Luther Spoehr, to name a few.</p>
<p>Surprised no one threw out the Dietrich Neumann. </p>
<p>I thought Berenfeld was okay, I mean she was fun, but her teaching style didn’t jive with my learning style. The class was supposed to require no prior knowledge but I couldn’t imagine taking the course without any. I definitely wouldn’t put her in my top professors category, she’s just too young to be that great yet. I heard some hearsay from a grad student that she wasn’t too well liked by some of the other Joukowsky people and female dog word came up lol. Who knows… She was easy to look at it though :)</p>
<p>Arnold Weinstein, in comp lit. I think he’s retiring soon (or on a reduced schedule), so sign up soon.</p>
<p>Ralph E. Rodriguez in American Civilization is another good prof.</p>
<p>Sue Alcock, Laurel Bestock, and Omur Harmansah in archaeology are amazing professors. </p>
<p>In anthropology, Steve Houston is extremely knowledgeable (and entertaining to boot).</p>
<p>Alcock was great</p>
<p>From personal experience (which is admittedly limited), I’d say Martin West (great freshman education seminar, although I think he may be leaving next year), Ken Miller (intro bio), Karl Jacoby (history), and Jennifer Lawless (poli sci, although I think some people like her more than others) are all fantastic.</p>
<p>I am pretty sure Martin West is leaving which makes me quite sad, especially because I was looking forward to course work with him next year in the UEP program. ED106 was very cool. What FYS did he teach? By the way, do I know you in real life, lfsc? Something you wrote the other day suggested to me that I may…</p>
<p>I’ve heard about this Pucci from people in FOUR DIFFERENT COUNTRIES, completely unrelated to eachother. He must be really awesome. :)</p>
<p>i sat in on an ethnic studies class with Professor Rodriguez and it was AMAZING!!!</p>
<p>he was very animated and the class was engaging even though i didn’t have the literature they were studying. the lesson was connecting racism to religion and culture… we also talked about islamophobia and how people have begun to connect islam with terrorists and “all that is unholy” 
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<p>i kinda don’t feel qualified to contribute to this thread tho cause i don’t actually go to brown… next year though :)</p>
<p>Professor Bogues in Africana is pretty frequently mentioned as stellar.</p>
<p>West taught ED41B, “Controversies in American Education Policy”</p>
<p>Also a fan of Chris Seto. And I really liked Peter Shank, in biology.</p>
<p>I second Dietrich Neumann (architecture), Pucci (classics), Omur Harmansah and Susan Alcock (archaeology), and Arnold Weinstein (comp lit). Haha funny enough I’ve taken their classes this past year and interviewed two for my paper and they are great professors and amazing people. One of them is my current advisor and I love him!</p>
<p>I also want to add Lauren Sarat to the list, for whoever wants to take an English class.</p>